Every family has some degree of anxiety, to varying degrees. This isn’t wrong, bad, or something to be rid of. It just is. In a Harvard study, they found that when mice was exposed to a toxic strawberry, they obviously expressed anxiety around it to ward off the threat. The interesting part, …
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How to Get What You Want by Being Vulnerable
We’ve been trained to work to be right. Think of your school tests. Big red marker amplifying your ‘wrongness’ and a cute green checkmark accentuating your ‘rightness’. Okay, maybe some things have changed, but the development of human nature hasn’t. Most of us still have the need to be right, to …
How to Open When You Feel Closed
I was working with a gentlemen, who was struggling with anxiety, and he would often be down and out for 3-4 days at a time with nearly zero energy. He was begrudging this pattern and I asked him what was going on. He said, “I just lay there. I start resting. I stop looking at the virus cases on …